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Don't know how strictly you're hewing to that particular early-to-mid-'70s era but Possession (1981), perhaps?

If we're allowing more modern, Mandy and Black Rainbow seem like good ones. Possessor from last year has a similar vibe.

Thank you for all your suggestion - I will update! Other contenders: El Topo (though that could fit on an Acid Western list), I Drink Your Blood. I don't especially want to set limits, but I guess I'm particularly looking for films where the overall vibe is that the cast and crew could well have been tripping while they made it.

It's still sitting in my ever-growing stack of unwatched movies but Simon King of the Witches seems like a contender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fax1uhZxvEA

Do you have a copy of Nightmare USA, Ward? I'm sure that's filled to the brim with what you're looking for.

Thanks OL, I do indeed. Still waiting on the second volume!

A Field In England? Or is that aping the aesthetic too self-consciously?

there's only one scene that really qualifies but it's so good i gotta recommend house on sorority row for this list

I think Field in England is more folk-horror-revivalism, tho obviously there is crossover here - Blood on Satan's Claw in particular has some fairly trippy stuff near the end, though that feels more like the work of canny exploitation opportunists rather than mind-expanding tru believers.

Another one - Last House on Dead End Street

Field in England is Mushroom Horror obv.

Blue Sunshine! Even though it's kind of lousy imo

it really is lol

I recommend nathaxnne's review of Transformers: The Movie, which I read the other day and which is very good.

― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:13 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow

As to Ward's query, perhaps these would qualify:

Messiah of Evil (1973)
A Name for Evil (1973
Eden and After (France, 1970)

Jean Rollin's entire oeuvre..?

xp to davey:
It Follows?
Happiness of the Katakuris?

hmm, It Follows is paranoid as heck but IDK if it's has the psychedelia quotient. Haven't seen Happiness of the Kakutanis but that looks like a fit. That one's going on the watch list. I'm wracking my brain for more titles but coming up blank. I'll ask Jasmine, she's more of a horror buff.

You've got a couple of Rollins' in there already but I'd definitely recommend The Iron Rose. What else are you gonna do after imbibing quantities than hang around a graveyard?

Also Luigi Bazzoni's Footprints on the Moon (Le Orme), 1978

altered states (and probably lair of the white worm too, though i haven't seen it)

Probably worth scouring 366 Weird Movies for nominees.

Lair of the White Worm is definitely trippy but also intentionally goofy and camped-up. I watched it not that long ago, don't remember most of it, and yet feel like I'd enjoy watching it again.

just saw a comedy so brilliant and ahead of its time i was moved to finally write more than a one-liner in a letterb*xd review.

pls like and subscribe.

https://letterboxd.com/daveyshindig/film/mystery-team/

h8 to self-promote but i think this movie broke my brain, it was on another level

i'm sincerely confused about whether you liked it or not

perfect ;p

(i did not)

fr i find it a little depressing to see how many people give 4- and 5-star ratings to so many movies that are objectively terrible

Eh, ratings are personal. There are lots of "objectively terrible" movies I will give high ratings because they're pinnacles of the form!

fair enough. i think some things are just bad period even if plenty of people like them. but my roommate likes that movie and i don't hold it against him

Spoken like a true ilxor

thank u silby, i like that ilk

I went through the two "last x movies" threads, copied everything I posted there since 2012--~1,000 films (there are duplicates)--and I'm making an effort to log them onto Letterboxd. As I think some people said above, I don't like the rating system. I have to go up or down on all the things I rated 6.5 or 7.5 on ILX, both very common ratings for me. Anyway, hope to have them logged in about two weeks. Then I'll start on the films I saw in the first 50 years of my life and never saw again.

Now that’s a retirement activity if I ever heard one!

Retirement + pandemic + move to small, isolated town: basically, I'm going crazy.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/letterboxd.jpg

lol

I only recently started using the rating system again after abandoning it about a year ago in favour of either "liking" a film or not. Most of this was motivated by discovering that I have a pretty bad memory even for things that I've watched in the fairly recent past--did I only sorta like The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry when I watched it a few months ago, or did I actually dislike it?--but I kind of like believing that history will care about what I vaguely thought about some second-tier noirs and 80s teen films, so I'll play along.

I think of the star ratings as snapshots of how I felt on a certain day and fully expect them to change with every watch.

Every movie I see is a five-bagger tbrr

yeah but six bags is the highest rating, we talked about this

1950s version, from Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country (which, truthfully, is boring me):

But even more than at the diary, Shimamura was surprised at her statement that she had carefully catalogued every novel and short story she had read since she was fifteen or sixteen. The record already filled ten notebooks.

"You write down your criticisms, do you?"

"I could never do anything like that. I just write down the author and the characters and how they are related to each other. That is about all."

"But what good does it do?"

"None at all."

stop yucking her yum, Kawabata

this is pretty self-indulgent but I'm enjoying the "how I letterboxd" profiles, this dude in particular has some great lists:

https://letterboxd.com/crew/story/how-i-letterboxd-justin-laliberty/

Blame me, not him--I cut the passage off before this:

He knew well enough for her that it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

There's a whole ad campaign right there. Letterboxd: distilling and purifying the existences of film lovers since 2011.

Justin's an interesting dude.

https://letterboxd.com/film/may-1-2020/

is this a real clusterfuck or a Kauffmanian bit?

have to admit I still haven't found the attention span to read a whole nathaxnne review

Last December, we followed each other on @letterboxd after posting five-star reviews of Mank. Five months later after 900 miles apart, we finally met up. Thank you Letterboxd and David Fincher! pic.twitter.com/xOuPUuPAa4

— Ben Crew - Muppets Great Gatsby (@BenjaminCrew1) May 3, 2021

it's nice that the only two Mank lovers found each other

I want to say that's better than coming together via their shared enthusiasm for Zodiac, but it's not.

If it was Zodiac that would be... ok, not awesome, but a lot better.

Everyone knows that true love can only bloom via a shared passion for Benjamin Button.